He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  delighted in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  worldwide, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In <a href="http://heating71u1rgvblog.soup.io/post/509310138/Bob-Duggan-Overview-Towards-San-Nicolas-Dorm">websites</a> 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Research studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.